talks
I’ve been speaking at conferences for over a decade — on testing, design, functional programming, and lately AI. Every talk links to its video, slides, and audience feedback.
PHP UK Conference · 2015
Test-driven design teaches us about the design of our code, and the more we know about design, the more TDD gives back. Just enough of it to appreciate TDD: responsibility-driven design, tell don't ask, the Law of Demeter and dependency inversion.
PHP UK Conference · 2014
A close look at red, green, refactor and the subtleties of each step. When the steps get too big the tests stay red; baby steps bring back a pace you can sustain.
SymfonyLive London · 2013
With Konstantin Kudryashov: treating Symfony as a detail at the edge of the application, so the core of the domain does not depend on the framework.
PHP UK Conference · 2013
Efficiency against effectiveness: why writing the tests first and putting two developers on one task, practices dismissed as impractical, so often turn out to be the effective ones.
I speak about testing and design, functional programming, and building AI applications in PHP — from lightning talks to keynotes and full-day workshops.
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